Live from Chicago… It’s ABATECH!
This week the ABA is sponsoring their annual legal technology conference in Chicago. Billed as “the place where lawyers, legal professionals and technology all come together”, there will be panel discussions, seminars and face to face meetings with experts presenting...
Test Drive: Time Matters 13 & WatchDox – the New Client Portal?
One of the major features of Time Matters Version 13 is its new collaboration with WatchDox – a cloud-based file sharing service with advanced security features. By combining this application with all the other features within Time Matters, users now have a secure...
Winding Down Windows XP
Remember when Microsoft first released Windows XP back in 2001? Yes, it really has been over a dozen years since its initial release. Initially annoying because of its somewhat different look and feel, users eventually embraced XP as a prettier, more stable successor...
Report from LegalTech 2014
Here is a brief synopsis of last week’s LegalTech New York 2014, one of the most important legal technology trade shows: Jason Thomas of Thomas Reuters jolted attendees awake with his keynote “TOR, Bitcoin, and the Anonymous Web: Drugs, Bombs and Murder-for-Hire”....
Products to Put Under your Tree
TechnoLawyer's popular TL NewsWire recently published their "Top 25 Products of 2013". Click here to review their list of the 25 top products for law firms in 2013. We at Eastern Legal Systems are proud to say that we either personally use or support (or both!) a...
Planning for your Year End
Season’s Greetings! Following the Thanksgiving holiday we at Eastern Legal Systems find not bells, but our phones ringing with questions from clients looking to the end of their fiscal year and the related filings and reporting requirements. How is your organization...
Safety and Ethics in Lawyers’ Use of Cloud Services
The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 1.1 Competence states that “To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology”. Rule...
Heading into the Clouds
How often do you fly? Annually? Monthly? More than once a month? Frequent flyers seem to have a better appreciation for the “price/need/convenience” equation than those of us who fly infrequently. If I am only in a plane twice a year, I can tolerate cramped seating,...
Timeslips Accounting Link (TAL Pro) 2014 – Is it Really New and Improved?
Finally - easier integration with QuckBooks and Sage 50/Peachtree for Timeslips 2014 users Last week, we wrote about what we saw and heard at the Sage Timeslips annual consultant conference in Washington, D.C. Among the new features touted for Sage Timeslips 2014...
Timeslips News from Sage Summit 2013
The Sage Timeslips Certified Consultants of Eastern Legal Systems returned from this year’s Sage Summit, held recently at National Harbor, MD, invigorated and excited about the enhancements available in the newly-released Sage Timeslips version 2014. Headlined by a...